Smuggled over the border: the school trip, the Stasi and the East German defector – podcast | World news | The Guardian

In 1984, a group of West German schoolchildren smuggled an East German defector out of East Germany. Sophie Hardach speaks to those involved. Plus: Jo Holdaway on the GM anti-virus drug that saved her daughter’s life

https://www.theguardian.com/world/audio/2019/may/13/smuggled-over-the-border-the-school-trip-the-stasi-and-the-east-german-defector-podcast